Poetry & Verse
Confessions
By Robert BrowningSource: Robert Browning - PoetryDB (Public Domain)241 words
What is he buzzing in my ears? "Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a vale of tears?" Ah, reverend...
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What is he buzzing in my ears? "Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a vale of tears?" Ah, reverend sir, not I! What I viewed there once, what I view again Where the physic bottles stand On the table's edge,--is a suburb lane, With a wall to my bedside hand. That lane sloped, much as the bottles do, From a house you could descry O'er the garden-wall: is the curtain blue Or green to a healthy eye?…
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